Battle jackets and the alternative music scene have been intertwined for decades. Most closely linked with the rise of Punk and Metal in the late '70s and early '80s, the genesis of battle jackets ...

This past weekend’s Punk in the Park music festival saw an array of do-it-yourself and customized clothing expression, most notably the classic, patched-up "battle ... art can adorn vests and ...

If anyone deserves to be designated a historian of battle vests -- the patch-covered denim jackets that metalheads ... Peter chronicles these pieces of heavy metal armor in all their forms.